On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Peter Collingbourne <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 03:56:24PM -0500, Bill Hoffman wrote: >> On 3/6/2012 1:29 PM, Peter Collingbourne wrote: >> >>> We can certainly do that, but the ninja binary would need to be >>> switched as soon as we get around to using rspfile in Ninja (and >>> no sooner). >>> >> >> OK, so is there a ninja binary that I can download right now that will >> work if I change the cmake files for cmake to build the ninja generator >> on windows? If so, where is it? My idea is to try it on my machine. If >> it works I will push the change into next that enables ninja on windows >> and setup a dashboard that pulls ninja from that spot each night. When >> cmake is changed to work with master ninja if someone updates that >> binary, then it will pull that and just work. That is what I have been >> doing with jom. > > That would be Peter Kummel's ninja. But what I would suggest we do, > as I suggested before, is to use an internal variable to turn on the > Ninja generator on Windows and Mac. This way, we can safely merge > ninja-generator into master without confusing users on Windows or > Mac by shipping a non-working Ninja generator in the next release, > while keeping the ability to test (on the dashboard and otherwise). > I have no idea what the timeframe for the Windows and Mac people > is, but I really would like the Ninja generator to be available on > non-Windows/Mac platforms in 2.8.8.
Sounds fair enough. -- Nicolas Desprès -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
